Hufana, Alejandrino G.

Hufana is a Filipino poet and writer.

From the description of Alejandrino G. Hufana papers, 1969-1970. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 26729706

Alejandrino G. Hufana (1926-2003) was a Filipino poet and author. He taught English and creative writing at the University of the Philippines and was Director of the UP Creative Writing Center. He was a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley (1961) and received a John D. Roosevelt III Fellowship in Art Librarianship at Columbia University (1969-1970) and a Research Fellowship of the National Library’s Special Research Project (1974-78). Other awards and recognitions include an outstanding Ilocano Writers and Journalists Award from the National Press Club (1980), the Tawid Awards for Arts & Letters from the Ilocano Heritage Foundation (1981) and the Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas from the Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas (1995).

[Biographical sketch adapted from information found on the University of the Philippines website, http://www.up.edu.ph/oldsystem/hufana.htm .]

From the guide to the Alejandrino G. Hufana Papers, before 1971, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries)